Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1912 — More Light [ARTICLE]

More Light

Fresh air enthusiasts are familiar enough to most of us, but we hear less of enthusiasm for light. Darkened parlors, darkened bethonmw, darkened sickrooms are too eemmon. Sir B.W. Richardson, the eminent London scientist and physician, declared that when the professors of healing enter a sick-room their first words in most cases ought to be Goethe’s dying exclamation: "More light! More light!" The light of the sun is God's own microbe killer, germicide, disinfectant, prophylactic, sickness healer. There is no physician, no chemical antidate, no compounded prescription to be compared with sunlight. Without it nature could not perform her functions. Man, beast, bird, insect would tall victims to the deadly gases that would prevail The horrid mists and deadly gases are dispersed and decomposed by the action of light. Let it in, everywhere! Let the light in more and more abundantly. Faded carpets are not as pitiful as faded cheeks. Spoiled cushions are trivial compared with spoiled health. Darkened rooms are too suggestive of darkened live*--—The Christian Herald. ■ -----c ;